Terri Noone had wanted to leave home ever since her two brothers grew up and moved out, but her cerebral palsy prevented her. At 29, she cannot walk and has trouble speaking intelligibly to strangers. ''I don't think about what I can't do,'' Noone...

June 29, 2003, Sunday

WHAT happens - to people, to neighborhoods, to a city after a great fire, like the ones that swept this city in mid-March? Taken together, two fires that occurred over a single weekend were among the worst ever to hit Westchester, or, for that ma...

June 15, 2003, Sunday

LLOYD BURLINGAME'S first guide dog at Seeing Eye here in Morristown was a German shepherd that was spunky, smart and handsome - or so people told him. Mr. Burlingame, who was 63 at the time and the chairman of the graduate theater design departmen...

June 1, 2003, Sunday

TIBETAN lamas and scientists studying the effects of meditation on brain chemistry will soon be arriving at the lovely old Capuchin Franciscan monastery that overlooks the Hudson River in Garrison in Putnam County. Garrison Institute, as it wi...

May 11, 2003, Sunday

JOHNNY-BOY SCALISE, the gangster, is home from prison and his family is giving him a real old-fashioned Italian party. Angie, his wife, is working the room, shaking hands and making wisecracks about Willie the Whacko, and Willie the Whacko is acti...

May 11, 2003, Sunday

WINDMILLS conjure up pictures of breezy fields, quaint Dutch landscapes, the hypnotic rotation of fan-like blades. But such clean and peaceful images are not what comes to mind when most people think of energy plants that require gas, oil and nucl...

March 30, 2003, Sunday

EVEN suburbanites who do not know New Jersey's historic towns first-hand may find Town Center -- only seven miles east of Trenton in Washington County -- oddly familiar. They have certainly seen similar places on Coke commercials and nostalgic sit...

March 2, 2003, Sunday

STEVEN SANCHEZ, a shy 22-year-old from the Bronx, raised on welfare, with a ninth-grade education, was doing nothing when his older sister said: ''You can't just be hanging out. Come to Greyston. You can get a good job there.'' Greyston is a cr...

February 23, 2003, Sunday

GEN. WILLIAM PAULDING, the mayor of New York City, retired in 1838 to his grand new Gothic Revival mansion built in the wilds of Tarrytown, without sacrificing a jot of urban comfort. Jay Gould, the railroad baron who moved there 42 years later an...

February 23, 2003, Sunday

ONCE, the folk music clubs in and around New York City were numerous and legendary: Folk City, the Speakeasy or Cafe a Go Go, to name a few. The rooms were intimate, the performances spontaneous and the musician on stage might be either the next B...